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Tag Archives: fantasy
Tree of Codes
Tree of Codes is a die-cut narrative by Jonathan Safran Foer, © Visual Editions 2010 A cool interview with Foer about the book is “Book as Art Object” in The New York Times
Posted in Book Review
Tagged book review, Bruno Shulz, childhood, coming of age, contemporary fiction, death, die-cut, disappearance, fantasy, fiction, frames, imagination, loneliness, perspective, postmodernism, reading process, reality, shadow, solitude, urban space, visual experience, writing process
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The Hall of the Singing Caryatids
The Hall of the Singing Caryatids is a novel by Victor Pelevin and translated by Andrew Bromfield, © New Directions 2011 Not all the theorists mentioned in this book are real, but Wittgenstein is.
Posted in Book Review
Tagged book review, consumption, contemporary fiction, fantasy, female body, female perspective, fiction, language theory, novel, post-Soviet literature, postmodernism, power, Russia, Russian, Russian literature, science fiction, semiotics, supernatural, surreal, technology, translation
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The Wilding
The Wilding is a novel by Benjamin Percy, © Graywolf Press 2010
Posted in Book Review
Tagged Benjamin Percy, book review, books, coming of age, contemporary fiction, death, fantasy, fiction, grizzly bears, horror fiction, Little Red Riding Hood, masculinity, nature, novel, Ochoco Mountains, Oregon, power, power dynamics, supernatural, suspense fiction, violence, wild, wildness, woods
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Murder Ballad
Murder Ballad is a collection of poems by Jane Springer, © Alice James Books 2012
Posted in Book Review
Tagged book review, contemporary poetry, Cormac McCarthy, death, fantasy, female perspective, Flannery O'Connor, ghosts, history, murder ballad, music, poetry, rape, recommendation, romanticism, southern Gothic, supernatural, the South, violence, William Faulkner, women
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Night Circus
The Night Circus is a novel by Erin Morgenstern, © Doubleday 2011
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Tagged book review, circus, competition, contemporary fiction, debut, fantasy, fiction, harry potter, love, magic, nature, novel, perspective, power, second person
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